≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Japan, Martial Arts, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Yukio Noda
Year: 1970
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Okay, you’ve got machine gun slaughters, drug wars, boat chases, death by spear gun, explosions galore, car chases, and much more. And yet, Yakuza Deka: The Assassin is pretty darned boring.
How can that be?
Let’s start with the action elements. None of them is […]
≡ Category: Ghost, Hong Kong, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Ghost
Director: David Lai
Year: 1983
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Poor Siu Yuk Lung (Siu Yuk Lung) and Lau Siu Ming (Lau Siu Ming) are having a rough evening. After a night out on the town, Lau Siu Ming gets drunk as usual and manages to get his wallet pickpocketed. Then he’s almost run down […]
≡ Category: Action, China, Comedy, Fantasy, Ghost, Martial Arts, Not Worth Your Time, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: China
Genre: Ghost/ Action/ Romance/ Martial Arts/ Comedy/ Fantasy
Director: Wilson Yip
Year: 2011
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I would have expected better from Wilson Yip, who directed the awesome Ip Man. From the evidence of A Chinese Ghost Story, he hasn’t the slightest clue about what his strengths and weaknesses are as a filmmaker.
One of the things […]
≡ Category: Art, Drama, Fantasy, Not Worth Your Time, Romance, Spain, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Spain
Genre: Fantasy/ Romance/ Drama/ Art/ Suspense
Director: Fernando Trueba
Year: 2009
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
El Baile De La Victoria aka The Dancer and the Thief is terribly twee, an utter fantasy. And yet, it’s a fantasy set in the ugly realities of the real world. Elements of the plot includes porno theater blowjobs and the disappearance […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Japan, Not Worth Your Time, Swordplay | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay
Director: Daisuke Itô
Year: 1970
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
One of the best bets in film is any Japanese movie from the 60s or early 70s set during either the Edo period of the Meiji period. It’s astonishing to me how consistent the acting, art design, and writing is in those flicks.
But there’s […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Michele Placido
Year: 2010
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Angel of Evil is a real curiosity.
The acting is fine (although it must be said that lead actor Kim Rossi Stuart doesn’t have a whole lot of charisma) and director Michele Placido directs with style, but cleanly, foregoing the ever-so-fashionable stylistic vomit of latter […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Hong Kong, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Action
Director: Ann Hui
Year: 1991
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
It’s odd that Zodiac Killers amounts to so little when there is so much good work here.
Let’s start with the fresh subject matter. Zodiac Killers is about folks from the Chinese diaspora (Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan) who come to Japan to study […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Drama, France, Not Worth Your Time, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Romance/ Comedy/ Drama
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Year: 2000
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
My wife is a big fan of Sophie Marceau, which explains why La Fidelite is being reviewed on this web site (I review every movie I watch).
You see, it’s a wacky French dramatic comedy, far removed from the genre flicks I usually review.
Clélia (Sophie […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Terence Young
Year: 1972
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
It’s not really fair to compare The Valachi Papers with The Godfather. Very few pictures are as good, let alone gangster flicks. Yet you can’t help yourself.
The Godfather was fiction, but it played like the gospel truth. The Valachi Papers is based on the life […]
≡ Category: Action, Martial Arts, Not Worth Your Time, Romance, Taiwan | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Romance/ Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Chu Yen-Ping
Year: 1985
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Seven Foxes is a mess, although it didn’t have to be.
It concerns three couples and their romantic travails. In the first story strand, Dong Tin wants to be a dancer (insert a few sequences derivative of Flashdance) and leaves […]